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This publication examines recently collected data from Haiti’s social registry new shock module to measure the scale of the August 2021 earthquake’s impact on households and assess the adequacy of the relief response.
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This Technical Note aims to assist technical specialists, client country teams, and donors, to identify needs and priorities for more detailed, site-specific risk studies.
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This publication shows explainable machine learning techniques can be employed to model and understand internal displacement flows and patterns from observational data alone.
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A new report from the UN Environment Programme, UNOPS and the University of Oxford highlights the contributions of nature-based infrastructure solutions to sustainable development, climate action and biodiversity.
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The new Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) Climate Adaptation Target Setting guidance aims to help banks accelerate their efforts on managing climate-related impacts and financing climate adaptation.
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The paper describes the actions that large global businesses are taking on adaptation, what is driving these actions and the barriers they face to doing more.
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This report summarizes AR6 Working Group II findings, enabling them to be translated into actionable information for national and regional policy-makers.
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This publication delivers a review investigation of the current CFWs in the USA and Canada based on their setup and dissemination, and a case study of two representative coastal flooding events.

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